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by westcort 5y ago
My grandfather who lived in that area said there were water quality issues after the war in some of the nearby rivers, as so many bodies were dumped. He also referred to Srebrenica from time to time. He was part of the resistance, the parti
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by westcort 6y ago
I have used it. This page of my website has the implementation I use: https://www.locserendipity.com/Pomodoro.html In my version, I break down the task into discrete steps and give myself a check mark for every sprint compl
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by westcort 6y ago
I have an aeropress, but just make instant. After I was sick, I need 12 cups of coffee daily just to stay awake. I wonder if I will ever feel the same again.
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by westcort 6y ago
File Locator Lite if you consider RegEx no code.
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by westcort 6y ago
https://www.locserendipity.com Randomize your exposure to information on the internet and widen your perspective!
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by westcort 6y ago
I have a rice cooker and a bread maker too. There is a pressure cooker for the microwave, but I don’t feel I need one. Time savings—-the ability to make a Thanksgiving meal for 4 and eat it and put it away and clean up in 35 minutes—-is th
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by westcort 6y ago
He is not a celebrity. He is an president working hard for us to get a historic crisis under control.
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by westcort 6y ago
I recommend using a microwave to heat water (with a porous wooden stirring rod to prevent overheating). I cook all of my food in a microwave using techniques and technology developed in the 70s. Browning pans have evolved since then and I c
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by westcort 6y ago
I used the NWSL list and translated them to several languages. You can use them here: https://www.locserendipity.com
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We may not always have Trump as president, but we will always have Markov Trump(locserendipity.com)
1 points by westcort 6y ago|0 comments
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Synthetic Headlines Using Markov Model on 1.8M Real Australian Headlines(locserendipity.com)
2 points by westcort 6y ago|0 comments
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I developed a language learning Web app for Chinese (desktop Chrome only)(locserendipity.com)
1 points by westcort 6y ago|0 comments
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by westcort 6y ago
I started this by downloading all of the books the LoC put out until 1918 (locserendipity.com). Full text sources in an external drive took up around 200 GB.
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I calculated every pun of the form “X-[word]-X? More like X-[antonym]-X!”(locserendipity.com)
2 points by westcort 6y ago|0 comments
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by westcort 6y ago
This is amazing! I guess we have gone full circle. This also ties in to the other thing locserendipity.com does. It is a corpus of all pre-1918 books. Just use site:locserendipity.com in Google.
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by westcort 6y ago
Thanks! It makes my day that this could make someone laugh!
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by westcort 6y ago
Great idea! I was not aware if that!
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by westcort 6y ago
Just used CMUDICT 0.7 which had 133000 or so entries, so there could be others if you used the OED. I did learn a lot of words from this though
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by westcort 6y ago
Good idea!
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by westcort 6y ago
I just did an index of match, so the t from th could have matched. It was quick and dirty, but it’s just for fun, so please forgive those
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by westcort 6y ago
Definitely something I could do with a quick regex. Great idea!
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by westcort 6y ago
I like this idea!
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by westcort 6y ago
Good one!
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by westcort 6y ago
View source and you can see all of them
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by westcort 6y ago
Great!
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by westcort 6y ago
I just did string matching (on about 7.6 billion items 133000^2) and matched the pronunciation portion. It’s a fun lark.
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by westcort 6y ago
I used CMUDICT v0.7
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Every possible pun of the form ‘You put the X in Y’(locserendipity.com)
76 points by westcort 6y ago|89 comments
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Read a random book from the Library of Congress(locserendipity.com)
3 points by westcort 6y ago|1 comments
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by westcort 6y ago
I made a website that catalogs all of the out of copyright books in the Library of Congress and other libraries. It includes a search engine for titles. There are a few other sections, like this Japanese learning app: www.locserendipity.com

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